Today was a pretty busy day. Joe Myers drove down from Bloomington to pick up Cathy and Rachael -- Rachael was catching a flight back to Portland this afternoon. Ashley stopped by with her boyfriend to drop of graduation announcements, but she didn't want to leave him (Chris) under Joe's influence too long, so it was a short visit. Then we all went into town to partake of the semin-annual Wabash Valley Ribfest, offering ribs, brats, pulled pork and barbecued chicken. They had closed off a block and set up in the street, so we had lunch there.
There happened to be a garage sale along here so I bought some more books. Joe keeps saying the supply of books we are traveling with ise probably going to fall out of the cabinets and crush us.
Next, we drove over to Monroe City for today's Little League game featuring Clayton and Mallory, with Mike manning the pitching machine (the other coaches had to work today). Clayton is the catcher and Mallory plays outfield.
Mike was the head coach today, and he suffered right along with Clayton. From their positions, it appears "like father like son."
Clayton got a couple of hits, made it to second base on the first one, and got the only RBI of the game on his second hit. Mallory only got to bat once and she fouled off several balls but never got a hit. Unfortunately, they lost 12-1.
Mallory is the smallest kid on the team, and Clayton isn't much bigger, but they both put forth a valiant effort. Lucille had made the fairly long walk from the parking lot over to the bleachers, but when the game was over, Joe went and got the car and came back the "authorized person only" road to pick her up so she didn't have to walk all the way back to the car. He didn't bring his hat with him but no one threw him out so I guess that was ok.
From there, we headed over toward Petersburg in search of fresh strawberries. We never found any, but did take a drive through the very pretty Pride's Creek Park. We intended to cut back through Hazelton but didn't get out of Petersburg on the right highway (although we did find ice cream cones at McDonalds on this highway) so we ended up all the way down to Oakland City, then came back through Francisco and Princeton. We drove through Decker and saw Judy Kay outside so we stopped and visited with her for a while. But the gnats drove us back to the car and we finally made it home. We heated up some leftovers and are calling it an early night.
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